as in tycoon
a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field
a neighborhood in which the city's merchant princes built palaces that shamelessly celebrated their wealth
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Recent Examples of prince
The tourists naturally ignore this advice, and serve themselves right up to the dark prince.
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Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2025
Once anchored to a prince, a courtier’s stock tends to rise and fall with that royal.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Watch Prince Louis Chat and Charm Behind the Scenes of His 7th Birthday Portrait Shoot in Rare Video
The prince also spent time with some of the young people helped by Mentivity and took part in some of the activities with them.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Read Next World 4,300-year-old tomb of a prince — with a false door — found in Egypt.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
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Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2025
Once anchored to a prince, a courtier’s stock tends to rise and fall with that royal.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Watch Prince Louis Chat and Charm Behind the Scenes of His 7th Birthday Portrait Shoot in Rare Video
The prince also spent time with some of the young people helped by Mentivity and took part in some of the activities with them.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Read Next World 4,300-year-old tomb of a prince — with a false door — found in Egypt.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prince
Noun
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Sue Ellen, who was married to philandering oil tycoon J.R.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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About 60 years earlier, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford had founded the university on his stock farm in Palo Alto, a sparsely populated town in a region where apricot and peach trees outnumbered houses.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
25 Apr. 2025
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The owner, a local steel magnate, had a clear philosophy of investing in players with untapped potential.—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Listen to this article A dental magnate and the owner of the nation’s largest personal injury law firm are among the financial backers of the effort hoping to lure Major League Baseball to Orlando.—
Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2025
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Charlotte on the other hand will likely be the future daughter or sister of a future king.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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The Prince of Wales’ attendance in place of the King is a modern tradition, and a statement to further establish William’s role as future king.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
24 Apr. 2025
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Should formal proclamations even be a thing that’s expected from celebrities in the year of our lord Lesbian Jesus 2025?—
Sam Manzella,
Them.,
23 Apr. 2025
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The agent and the drug lords Camarena, who was born in Mexico but raised in Calexico, was 37 years old on Feb. 7, 1985, when five gunmen abducted him off the street in Guadalajara near the U.S. Consulate.—
Alex Riggins,
Mercury News,
30 Mar. 2025
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The British monarch is expected to skip the late pontiff's funeral service at St Peter's Basilica church in the Vatican on April 26, keeping in line with royal traditions, Kensington Palace confirmed to Vanity Fair and Us Weekly.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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Yet, in truth, Pope Francis simply did what every other pope (or monarch, world leader, or even CEO) would do: surrounded himself with like-minded people.—
Made by History,
Time,
22 Apr. 2025
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The first is about Sir Gawain, nephew of King Arthur, whose rivals include both rebellious barons at home and pagan Saxons invading from abroad.—
Alan Yuhas,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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While cattle barons may seem like a throwback, their spirits still rule in Big Sky Country.—
Jim Robbins,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Mar. 2025
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Archaeologists have now found the first direct osteological evidence: the skeleton of a Roman gladiator who encountered a wild animal in the arena, most likely a lion, based on bite marks evident on the pelvic bone, according to a paper published in the journal PLoS ONE.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2025
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It’s got about half the caffeine of a cup of coffee and a nice coconut flavor thanks to a bit of powdered coconut milk, and, importantly for a mushroom coffee, not too much fungi flavor despite the inclusion of lion’s mane, reishi, and cordyceps.—
Alaina Chou,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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The number of immigration arrests at workplaces has tripled since Trump took office, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said Monday.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
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Trump's border czar Tom Homan on April 28 said the administration deported 139,000 people in the first 100 days – putting the administration on track to remove roughly half a million people this year.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Prince.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prince. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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